The New York Times

PLOT TO BLOW UP TURKISH WAR COUNCIL

Clockwork Bomb Found in War Ministry at Constantinople; Several
Officials
Arrested

APRIL 28, 1915

PARIS - April 27. A powerful clockwork bomb was found hidden yesterday
in the
Ministry of war at Constantinople, according to a dispatch from
Saloniki. It was
timed to explode at an hour when the Council would be in session. The
meeting of
this body is attended by Enver Pasha. Minister of War, Field Marshal
von der
Goltz and General Liman von Sanders.

An investigation is said to have disclosed that the bomb was placed in

the room
by a sweep who had come to clean the chimney and who then disappeared.
Several
minor officials connected with the Ministry of War have been arrested
on
suspicion of being his accomplice on. The police believed the plot was
directed
against the Young Turks and the Germans.

Members of the Committee of Union and Progress are said to have

decided, at a
meeting to which no German were admitted, to adhere , to a "waiting
policy," but
to favor the conclusion of a separate peace with the Allies if Germany
failed to
provide the assistance sufficient repulse an attack on Dardanelles.